Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] on [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own .
2 But their hopes were dashed when the rope snapped and the Bettina Danica was pushed further on to the rocks by the rising tide and the heavy swell .
3 Animals in all stages of misery are turned out on to the streets , left in remote areas , even just left behind after the family holiday .
4 The early Pop artists — Lichtenstein , of course , but Warhol too — were fascinated early on by the possibilities of comic illustration .
5 These estates were centred on some of the most significant places in the landscape , with all other settlements dependent on them , and may be reflected later on in the lands of old established monasteries and bishoprics , or in some hundredal arrangements .
6 The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu .
7 The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church .
8 ’ cheery voice and shrill whistle will be sadly missed in Malt Dispatch by all the drivers he has guided back on to the doings !
9 When these weapons are taken out on to the streets , it can lead to a change in the spiritual climate , of which more later .
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